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...HS2 Ltd, the company in charge of the project, is now looking at ways to change the specifications for the trains it has ordered to tackle that drop in capacity, although no contracts have yet been amended...
...It said the move had shifted the fund’s emphasis away from peace building and conflict prevention....
...Last year an inward investment surge led to more projects coming to the West Midlands than Scotland and Wales combined....
...The Camp Hill project in Birmingham is part of a larger £5.6bn programme of transport infrastructure investment planned over the next decade by the West Midlands Combined Authority, the regional body that...
...Kant’s essay on perpetual peace is often cited as an inspiration for the European Union: a project born out of the ashes of the second world war that saw former mortal enemies come together in a shared commitment...
...This Sufi singing, called qawwali, is music with a message — peace, tolerance and devotion to God — powerfully transporting listeners to another plane....
...to analysis by HS2 Ltd, the state-owned body running the project....
...Steven Knight may churn out new TV series at a rate that would exhaust even ChatGPT but This Town — his fourth show since Peaky Blinders ended in 2022 — is a genuine passion project....
...“The only exception is Hungary, which calls for an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations and supports all international efforts that point towards peace . . ....
...The estimated cost of building the UK’s HS2 high-speed railway between London and Birmingham has soared to as much as £67bn, according to the project’s top executive, who said there was no guarantee it would...
...UK events: The government launches an auction round for renewable power projects estimated to be worth more than £1bn. GMB union members at Amazon in Birmingham begin a two-day strike....
...rail project....
...Britain’s proposed high-speed rail line was drastically cut back in October when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak axed its northern leg, arguing that the £36bn cost would be better spent on local transport projects...
...“Europe is a peace project, to secure this peace, that space of rights and freedom, we need to strengthen our deterrence and defence capacities,” Sánchez said, arriving at a summit of EU leaders on Thursday...
...Orbán said Hungary supported China’s peace plan for the war in Ukraine, reiterating his call for an immediate ceasefire and peace talks — a policy that Nato allies reject as akin to capitulation....
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...Regional powers such as Iran or Saudi Arabia use this to project influence or protect their interests, while Lebanon’s political leaders play along, waiting to see which way the regional winds are blowing...
...Prime Minister Rishi Sunak argued that it was worth continuing to build the first phase of the line between Birmingham and west London when he axed the northern leg of the project last October....
...When the project was launched more than a decade ago, it envisaged that trains would start running between Euston station in central London and Birmingham by 2026....
...Financed through public and private investment, the project has reintegrated old industrial wastelands with the city centre, fuelling a boom in the tech sector, among others....
...from Birmingham to Manchester....
...just days after ministers cast similar doubts on the beleaguered project....
...As a second figure familiar with the project notes: “I don’t think there’s anybody else who’s doing anything about this.”...
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